Marcie Bianco: The act might seem like a step forward. But in reality, it's a Trojan horse that codifies discrimination, and highlights the national entrenchment of religion. - NBCNewsTHINK
challenging affirmative action, more specifically, challenging the right of public and private higher education institutions to consider race as one factor in admissions. Meanwhile, epidemics of gun violence and violence against trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people are destroying our lives. Migrant and refugee people seeking sanctuary are being imprisoned, abused and exploited by politicians as political pawns.
What the priorities of Congress and, seemingly, our collective interest indicate is the profound limitations of not simply our institutions but what I call the “equality mindset”— the generations of social conditioning that have hemmed the expanse of our political and social imaginations to the desires of the white supremacist patriarchy such that we seek equality within the very institutions designed to oppress us.
Of course, the irony in this situation is that federal marriage equality isn’t even guaranteed under the Respect for Marriage Act. But the mindset is so pervasive, the desire for equality on patriarchy’s terms so deeply entrenched within us, that we seek equal rights and protections — here, that your gay marriage will be “recognized” in a state that bans gay marriage — that we fail to question the capacity of these measures.
As we’ve seen time and again, laws can be made and unmade, rights can be given and taken, yet it is only in their practice that they can be experienced. The constitutional right to vote, for example, exists in name but means very little when a to patrol a polling station. Recognition by and inclusion into institutions is not the equivalent of respecting the human dignity of your neighbor.Marcie Bianco is a writer and editor based in California. Her first book,"Breaking Free," will be published on September 5, 2023.
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